Australia and cyber-warfare
By: Gary Waters, Desmond Ball and Ian Dudgeon.
Contributors: Ball, Desmond.; Dudgeon, Ian.; Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
Series: Canberra papers on strategy and defence -- no. 168
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781921313790
Subjects: Information warfare -- Australia; Command and control systems -- Australia; Military telecommunication
Other titles: Australia and cyber warfare
Description: "This book explores Australia's prospective cyber-warfare requirements and challenges. It describes the current state of planning and thinking within the Australian Defence Force with respect to Network Centric Warfare, and discusses the vulnerabilities that accompany the use by Defence of the National Information Infrastructure (NII), as well as Defences responsibility for the protection of the NII. It notes the multitude of agencies concerned in various ways with information security, and argues that mechanisms are required to enhance coordination between them. It also argues that Australia has been laggard with respect to the development of offensive cyber-warfare plans and capabilities. Finally, it proposes the establishment of an Australian Cyber-warfare Centre responsible for the planning and conduct of both the defensive and offensive dimensions of cyber-warfare, for developing doctrine and operational concepts, and for identifying new capability requirements. It argues that the matter is urgent in order to ensure that Australia will have the necessary capabilities for conducting technically and strategically sophisticated cyber-warfare activities by the 2020s. The Foreword has been contributed by the Hon. Kim C. Beazley, former Minister of Defence (198490), who describes it as a timely book which transcends old debates on priorities for the defence of Australia or forward commitments, [and] debates about globalism and regionalism, and as an invaluable compendium to the current process of refining the strategic guidance for Australias future defence policies and capabilities."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Foreword by Kim C. Beazley.

"Strategic and Defence Studies Centre."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-166) and index.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet.  Address as at 26 Sept. 2008: http://epress.anu.edu.au/cyber_warfare_citation.html